Is it really? In this example, could you not see anything wrong with calling employees losers and monkeys, until someone linked you the CoC?

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hshdhdhj4444 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Code of Conduct cannot stop someone from doing something.

It’s just a document.

However, in this case, the presence of the code of conduct has made it trivially easy to point out the language as wrong in a way whoever wrote this for Zig cannot refute.

It’s working exactly as it should.

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kelnos 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How is it working? The post is still there, referring to people as "losers" and "monkeys". Was the author of the post chastised? Have they edited the post and apologized?

	▲	KingMob 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Heh. You've rediscovered Critical Race Theory, which was a graduate-level theory about how rules/laws are systematically applied to minorities/the powerless, and not applied to the powerful/project leaders. Holding the powerful to the law is unfortunately, a separate issue to whether it's worth it to have written rules/laws in the first place. A CoC could still be better than no CoC, even if it fails to rein in abuse from the top.

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reactordev 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which suffice to say is not at all

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IshKebab 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They don't have to refute it; they have the power to ignore it.

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szundi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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serial_dev 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

To add to it, the post is still calling people losers and monkeys, so the CoC is clearly not working properly.

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amake 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Might as well get rid of laws against murder because sometimes people commit murder anyway?

	▲	ifh-hn 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not the same thing at all. There's consequences for murder, absolutely none for not abiding by this CoC; as clearly seen by the fact the posted remains as is.
	▲	graemep 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A better analogy would be getting rid of laws against murder if its unevenly applied so people from a particular group always got away with it.

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prmoustache 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes the same way laws don't eradicate delinquency and crime magically. Humans are humans.